anti-gay bullying

Violence against queer people runs much deeper than physical bullying, verbal harassment, or even hate-crime murder. It is a violence that takes place at the level of the psyche, the soul—at the very level at which our sense of “self” is constructed within our relation to society.

But even while the language and the tone of anti-gay evangelical groups is beginning to shift, the reality is that while the language of anti-bullying has been adopted by groups like Focus on the Family, the theological and ideological currents that produce the reality of anti-gay bullying remain unquestioned.